Creating employment is a key motivation for South Africa’s female entrepreneurs, with 90 percent saying that it was a ’very important’ (74 percent) or an ’important’ (16 percent) consideration when they started their business, according to the South African Women Entrepreneurs Job Creators Survey.
A. Issues in the Environment
1. Coronavirus Disease vaccine roll-out
1.1 Cabinet welcomed the progress with COVID-19 vaccinations which had on Tuesday, 8 June 2021 reached 1, 524, 589 and the Pfizer. | June 10, 2021
SA needs tangible solutions to deal with the youth unemployment crisis
By Letter to the Editor
2h ago
By Mafika Sphiwe Mgcina
June, the month dedicated to the heroism of our youth against the apartheid regime, started on a sorry state after the Quarterly Labour Force Survey released the most shocking statistics about the jobs bloodbath in our country, particularly for the youth.
Stats SA revealed the official unemployment rate among the youth â those between 15 and 34 years â was at 46%. This is coupled by independent research which puts the youth unemployment rate above 70%.This is astonishing, given the fact government has launched a number of initiatives to curb youth unemployment in our country. What we should be asking is: how far have those initiatives yielded the desired results in dealing with youth unemployment?